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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by indymike on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:27PM (#28519095)
Firefox has less users than desktop Safari. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. When you factor in mobile it gets worse because Chrome (the Android default) and Safari (the only real choice on iOS) are so dominant.

Also, the market share numbers reported by client side trackers like StatsCounter are very close to log file collection and analysis by companies like Kinsta.

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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by jamie_ca on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:22PM (#28527076)
iOS Firefox is actually quite nice, I've been using it as my default for a year now. Biggest win for me is tab sync, so it's pretty easy to open a tab I had loaded on my phone in my desktop browser.

Sure, it's using Safari as a renderer, but these days that's hardly where the differentiating value is.

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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by eric_cc on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:32AM (#28524524)
How are you so sure? You really didn’t address OP’s point about content blocking and privacy tools.
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Re:Firefox Browser: best for a free web by indymike on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:54PM (#28529254)
Content blocking does not change requests to the originating server. Firefox would have much better market share in log file analysis method studies than it does in client side tracker based studies if the OP was correct.
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